Old timers thread

[SheedSoNasty]

41 and noticing that SheedSoNasty has been my alter ego on the net for well over half my life… sheesh. I need a better hobby.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I remember listening to the radio with my dad to find out who we selected in the Blazer's first draft. (I was 11)
The only player in the draft I was aware of was Pistol Pete who went 3rd. (Behind Lanier and Rudy Tomjanovich) No idea who Petrie was but I idolized him within a few months.

 

[Phatguysrule]

I remember if there was ever part of a game I was going to miss when I was real young…..I would record the Schonz onto a cassette and listen to it later. Did the same for COURTSIDE even in the late 90s.

I miss the Snapper

 

[MickZagger]

This place will be a ghost town once the boomers pass on. Yabba!

It will be just me and jlprk

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

I miss the Snapper

Jimmy Jones and Steve Jones, the absolute Gold Standard in Blazer Television broadcasting teams. I wish Calabro would go back through old Blazer video and learn some valuable lessons........

 

[PtldPlatypus]

This place will be a ghost town once the boomers pass on. Yabba!

It will be just me and jlprk

I was going to like the first sentence, but then I was offended by the second, so no like for you.

 

[Hoopguru]

I go back to day 1 with the Blazers.
I also used to listen to Ted Dawson on Calling all Sports which was the Blazer show before Courtside.

 

[Kell]

45… fanatic since 89-90, my grandpa and I would sit in his den playing dominos while eating hard candies and listening to the late great Bill Schonely. My fandom was set, Rip city until I die!

 

[Hoopguru]

This place will be a ghost town once the boomers pass on. Yabba!

It will be just me and jlprk

When I was in my 30's I wouldn't have been able to spend so much time in a place like this....Especially with so many old peckers.

 

[wizenheimer]

more people here on medicare than I suspected

 

[julius]

this is the weirdest A/S/L role call I've ever seen.

 

[e_blazer]

more people here on medicare than I suspected

I'm making sure that I live long enough to recoup my investment in Social Security/Medicare.

 

[wizenheimer]

I'm making sure that I live long enough to recoup my investment in Social Security/Medicare.

nahhh....you don't want to recoup on Medicare. You want to stay relatively healthy and out of doctor's offices until you drop dead one day in your late 90's

 

[BassPlaya]

Turning 65 shortly. Been a fan since the 70's. Favorite all time player.....Mercy mercy.....Jerome Kersey.

When I was in my 30's I wouldn't have been able to spend so much time in a place like this....Especially with so many old peckers.

My mom had a saying about the old guys sitting at the end of the bar everyday....in the same seat. She called them dead pecker row.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Turning 65 shortly. Been a fan since the 70's. Favorite all time player.....Mercy mercy.....Jerome Kersey.



My mom had a saying about the old guys sitting at the end of the bar everyday....in the same seat. She called them dead pecker row.

We used to call them "dirt nappers" .....but I am way too close to being one to use it anymore.

 

[Strenuus]

This thread makes me feel weird.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

This thread makes me feel weird.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

this is the weirdest A/S/L role call I've ever seen.

this thread is great!

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Where is @jlprk ? I don't want to be the oldest guy on here. I think I didn't start watching until the Porter/Drexler years. I thought NBA basketball was boring compared to the kamikaze kids. Now i am thinking maybe I started following the Blazers after Harter left Oregon in 1978.

 

[TheGoldRanger]

I’m 38 years old. My Dad was a die hard Blazers fan from the 80s to early 2000s. He eased me into becoming a fan in the late 80s/early 90s by bringing home those Franz bread Blazers cards. I remember him yelling his lungs out listening to games on the radio and while at home watching games. I got more serious about the Blazers in the mid to late 90s watching Brian Grant and Rasheed Wallace and became a die-hard ever since.

 

[Kano John]

I'm 68 yrs young and a Blazers fan from day 1. Listened to the Shonz in the early days even when the games were televised. My favorite Blazers memory was meeting Bucky Buckwalter back in the early 80's. I believe it was the '82 -'83 season when I would occasionally get a call that there were seats available for myself and a friend behind the Blazers bench. Unfortunately I had to move out of state before the end of the season and that was the end of that.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Was at game 1 with my dad, courtesy of Harry Glickman. My dad used to own the Alibi on Interstate and he and Harry were friends. We got a tour of everything and met some people, including the Schonz.

My dad was definitely more of a Buckaroos fan, but I fell in love with the team immediately

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

We used to call them "dirt nappers" .....but I am way too close to being one to use it anymore.

In the mid 70’s, as young veteran scrambling to make a living working part time jobs and going to school on the GI Bill, I would occasionally take mental health breaks and slip into a favorite West Moreland watering hole (Rubensteins. Eventually became the Iron Horse) for Happy Hour. I loved hanging with the old neighborhood retirees who were there daily, slow working their Happy Hour pitchers (cut glass!) of cheap draft and ragging on each other. And I so very dearly envied them there hard won retirement. And I couldn’t wait to get there myself. Well here I am. Unfortunately those old holes in the wall are few and far between. So is cheap beer on Happy Hour…,,

 

[kjironman1]

Was at game 1 with my dad, courtesy of Harry Glickman. My dad used to own the Alibi on Interstate and he and Harry were friends. We got a tour of everything and met some people, including the Schonz.

My dad was definitely more of a Buckaroos fan, but I fell in love with the team immediately

Well that is a pretty interesting nugget. I assume you no longer own the Alibi? When did you/he sell?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Well that is a pretty interesting nugget. I assume you no longer own the Alibi? When did you/he sell?

70s? I was still young and had hopes and dreams. My dad passed away when I was young. I should add that he was a part owner with some navy buddy….. got nothing on that name though

All this decorum and politeness was self taught

 

[SheedSoNasty]

In the mid 70’s, as young veteran scrambling to make a living working part time jobs and going to school on the GI Bill, I would occasionally take mental health breaks and slip into a favorite West Moreland watering hole (Rubensteins. Eventually became the Iron Horse) for Happy Hour. I loved hanging with the old neighborhood retirees who were there daily, slow working their Happy Hour pitchers (cut glass!) of cheap draft and ragging on each other. And I so very dearly envied them there hard won retirement. And I couldn’t wait to get there myself. Well here I am. Unfortunately those old holes in the wall are few and far between. So is cheap beer on Happy Hour…,,

I lived just on the other side of the Iron Horse during my first stint as a married man. I saw Mike Rice there once and got to say hi and chat for a second.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

nahhh....you don't want to recoup on Medicare. You want to stay relatively healthy and out of doctor's offices until you drop dead one day in your late 90's

https://www.poetry.com/poem/53911/let-me-die-a-youngman's-death

 

[kjironman1]

70s? I was still young and had hopes and dreams. My dad passed away when I was young. I should add that he was a part owner with some navy buddy….. got nothing on that name though

All this decorum and politeness was self taught

So many stories about things that happened at the Alibi in the 90’s

 

[Pinwheel1]

My dad was definitely more of a Buckaroos fan, but I fell in love with the team immediately

I was too until the Blazers arrived. (Arnie and Cliff, Connie, Art Jones)
The Totems were my first introduction to the Seattle rivalry. It still exists 55 years later.

 

[Irish Trader]

Well so far unless anyone can dispute my claim it looks like at 75 I am the oldest. Came to Portland in 1971 from LA Basin growing up watching the lakers. At UCLA Kareem was in my history class when I was a freshman. Dont know why he was in the class as a junior he is 77. I thought there might be some other old timers in here besides myself. I have seen some great players in my time. When I came to Portland the Blazers became my team leaving LA behind. Hands down in my mind Kareen and the skyhook best center of all time. Larry Bird the Smartest player of all time. Jordan the greatest athlete in my mind. I saw Wicks play in high school in summer league we were playing in. Best shooting guard Curry and point guard is hard to make a selection. If i was to pick a point guard he would be able to shoot, pass and defend at an elite level. Wish I can see another 1977 championship again before the grim reeper makes an appearance.